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The 2020 Pro-Life Billboard Blitz

Illinois Family Institute is partnering with other pro-life advocates to reach and challenge millions of our neighbors with the truth about abortion. We are putting up pro-life billboards with the simple and bold statement “Abortion Takes A Human Life,” but we need your financial partnership to continue to challenge our culture with this truth.

For example, our most recent campaign reached 7 million views on 22 digital billboards across 9 different expressways in Chicago’s northern, western, and southern suburbs along with the important cities of Aurora and Joliet. This billboard blitz ran during the week of Feb. 23 through March 1. Take one minute to watch our highlight video:

These pro-life billboards have reached 50 million views in Cook and DuPage Counties with this life-affirming message. These billboards circumvent the biased media, go straight to the people and are receiving an overwhelmingly positive response from the public. We want to build on that success going forward. This is an opportunity to challenge the thinking and apathy of our neighbors. Our hope and prayer is that this message will lead our culture away from abortion and toward life. Changing our culture requires bold and clear communication that reaches a large audience.

This is a wonderful opportunity to save mothers and babies from abortion. Many who see these billboards could someday play a role in deciding whether or not to abort an innocent baby. We can reach them before they’re tempted.

Click HERE to make a donation to raise funds to place these billboards throughout the Chicagoland area and then throughout the state of Illinois. We need your help to reach our culture with this life-affirming message.




Pro-life Billboard Reaches Chicago and Suburbs!

Illinois Family Institute is pleased to announce that we have another large pro-life billboard in Rolling Meadows near IL-53 and Algonquin Road with the message: “Abortion Takes A Human Life.”  In early August, watch for another billboard to be posted near I-290 and Kedzie Avenue on the west side of Chicago.

The message will be seen 3.3 million times during July and August, reaching residents all traveling throughout the Chicago’s west side and northwest suburbs.

The efforts to reach Chicago area residents with this culture changing message has also taken the form of pro-life bridge events.  During these memorable and sometimes exhilarating events, pro-life friends gather to display this same message on highway overpasses throughout the Chicago area.  It’s during these moments when pro-life advocates have seen the overwhelmingly positive response to this message.  Of the responses received from drivers, 80 percent are positive and only 20 percent are negative.

Donors and volunteers have made it possible to reach millions with this powerful message.  The contributions by the pro-life community are critical if we’re going to save babies and their parents from the life-ending and soul-wounding act of abortion.  The culture can only change if we employ mass communication methods, including clear concise messages on billboards.  More babies will be aborted if we are passive and do nothing.  Therefore, we must act boldly!

Here is a short video taken at the Kedzie Avenue location.

Donate to the next series of billboards and let’s reach millions with this politically incorrect, but critically important message:




IFI Reaches 10 Million With Pro-life Message

Thanks to your contributions, IFI has put up an eye-catching, pro-life billboard around I-90 and Kedzie Ave, near the Logan Square and Avondale neighborhoods of Chicago.  The message – “Abortion Takes Human Life” — will be seen over 10 million times before the end of July!

This new display comes after IFI and pro-life activists reached half of the adult residents in Cook County during 2016 and 2017 with billboards, pro-life bridge events, and other mass communication efforts.  Our current message will be seen by people traveling to work and school, between O’Hare and Chicago, and to the Taste of Chicago and July 4th events.

The billboard coincides with the inaugural National Pro-Life Bridges Day.  This national event, led by the Pro-Life Action League, will take place on Friday, June 22.  Pro-life advocates will display the message – “Abortion takes a human life” – on bridges over highways all across the country, including three locations in the Chicagoland area.  Learn more about the event HERE.

Pray for our billboard message to encourage the pro-life community, persuade the undecided, and prompt pro-choice people to have softened hearts that they might intelligently consider the moral implications of the scientific truth we are sharing.

Also, please consider contributing to this campaign and the next billboard here:


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Pro-Life Message Reaches 50% of Cook County

IFI has partnered with pro-life Illinoians to reach over 26 million views of the message “Abortion Takes Human Life” in the Chicagoland area from January 2016 to October 2017.  Billboards, pro-life overpasses and other efforts have spread this message throughout much of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.

Together, we have reached half of adult residents in Cook County!

However, some areas have not been sufficiently reached with this bold pro-life message.  We need your donations to put up three billboards that will reach our neighbors in the northwest suburbs, northwest Chicago, and the southwest suburbs.  We must raise another $12,000 to reach the people in these areas.  Can you invest in saving lives and challenging the abortion culture by donating to this campaign?  Help us reach our goal.

Changing our culture requires bold and clear communication that reaches a large audience. This is an opportunity to save mothers and babies from abortion. Many who see these billboards will someday play a role in deciding whether or not they will abort an innocent baby. We can reach them before they’re tempted by abortion.

Click HERE to make a donation to raise funds to place these billboards throughout the Cook County area and then throughout the state of Illinois. We need your help to reach our culture with this life-affirming message which forces readers to grappel with the truth of abortion.


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Pro-life Billboard Reaches the South Side of Chicago!

Illinois Family Institute is pleased to announce that we have another large billboard on the south side of Chicago with the message: “Abortion Takes Human Life.”

The billboard is located near at 59th and Wentworth, overlooking the Dan Ryan expressway (I-90/I-94).  It’s located 3 miles south of the White Sox Stadium, Guaranteed Rate Field, and it’s just west of The University of Chicago and the Museum of Science and Industry. The message will be seen 3.86 million times during the month of August, reaching residents all around Chicago’s south side.

This is the fourth billboard with this message in the Chicago area during 2017.  Between February and March of 2017, three billboards reached 12 million viewers with the same message, “Abortion Takes Human Life.”  These were located on three different highways, I-290, I-55, and I-294.    All four billboards are located in Cook County which has a population of 5.2 million. The billboards will reach over 15 million views!

The efforts to reach Chicago area residents with this culture changing message has also taken the form of pro-life overpass events.  During these memorable and sometimes exhilarating events, pro-life friends gather to display this same message on highway overpasses throughout the Chicago area.  It’s during these moments when pro-life advocates have seen the overwhelmingly positive response to this message, with 80 percent of the drivers responding positively and only 20 percent responding negatively.

Donors and volunteers have made it possible to reach millions with this powerful message.  The contributions by the pro-life community are critical if we’re going to save babies and their parents from the life-ending and soul-wounding act of abortion.  The culture can only change if we employ mass communication methods, including clear concise messages on billboards.  More babies will be aborted if we are passive and do nothing.  Therefore, we must act boldly!

Here is a short video taken at the location.  It is narrated by IFI’s Dave Smith.

Donate to the next billboard and let’s reach millions with this politically incorrect, but critically important message:




Choosing Blessing: We Must All Be Advocates for Life

What makes a country great? Why have civilizations come and gone? Why do some people groups last against all odds?

Modern America and France both were born through revolutions. One revolution was ignited by the firm belief that “…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”

The other revolution was kindled and supported by the motto “Liberté, égalité, fraternité!” I.E. “Freedom, equality, brotherhood.” Though that sounds inspirational, the cry was purposefully sterilized of any mention of a Creator, of God.

America’s Founders, contrary to the assertion of modern, elitist academia, firmly believed in the God of the Bible. Prayer was indispensable to America’s founding.

The French revolution, in stark contrast to the America, was fueled by a robust secular humanism. French culture grew out of that unchecked “liberté” — humanity as the arbiter of right and wrong, with utility rather than moral convictions, steering that nation’s society.

America grew in strength and prosperity for some 200 years, adhering, for the most part, to her godly heritage. France, it can be argued, degenerated from within, just another of Europe’s godless countries.

Thirty-five years ago Dr. Francis Schaeffer and Dr. C. Everett Koop wrote a comprehensive treatise on life, Whatever Happened to the Human Race. Schaeffer and Koop spoke of the “slippery slope” of devaluing life. And the devaluation of life grew in direct proportion to the rejection of God and His principles from the private and public lives of U.S. citizens and government.

Dr. Schaeffer’s words:

The fully developed view of the sanctity of human life in the West did not come from nowhere. It came directly from the Judeo-Christian consensus, which was the framework in the West for centuries. Based on biblical teachings, people used to view human life as unique, something to be protected and loved because it was made in the image of God.

Today, the United States of America is reaping the whirlwind of rejecting the Founder’s wisdom, which was based on biblical wisdom. The secular humanism which predicated France’s revolution has inundated our nation’s gatekeepers: academia, entertainment, and media.

And now, America is at a crossroads. The wrongly decided Roe v. Wade paved the way for the murder of 60 million innocent lives since 1973.

But the tide is turning as pro-life people of faith awaken and declare the truths that once made our nation great. A culture can be judged not by their GNP, scientific discoveries, manufacturing capabilities or technological brilliance. Rather, the true test of a society is how they treat the most vulnerable, the least of these.

God’s word instructs us (as it did the Founders):

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live

And as written in 2 Chronicles:

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

David wrote in Psalm 139:

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

The path to restore our nation, the United States of America, is clear: we must humble ourselves, confess and turn from our sin (which includes abortion), and we must choose life!

Every Christian bears responsibility to not only know these inspired verses, to not only live these inspired verses, but to speak out these inspired verses. The Christian life was never meant to be a secret society of “good works doers.” We are called to, like Caleb, be bold and courageous, to stand for God and His Word.

We have such an opportunity now in a simple yet striking billboard campaign:

Illinois Family Institute is partnering with pro-life advocates to challenge millions of our neighbors about abortion. We are putting up pro-life billboards with the simple and bold statement “Abortion Takes Human Life“, but we need your financial partnership to make this a success.

Moses penned concerning the responsibility of people of the Book to teach and make known God’s Word and precepts:

These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Every one of you can partner with IFI and write truth “on your gates.” Translated to 2017, these billboards are the modern day version of the city gates of biblical times.

America can be great again if we humble ourselves and uphold God’s principles, which includes choosing life. Americans of faith can stop the breakneck speed down the slippery slope, but we must be willing to speak out.

Join Illinois Family Institute and choose life, declare that life is special.


Click HERE to sign a petition to defund Planned Parenthood.




Three Pro-Life Items for Your Attention

This time of year is usually extremely busy as lawmakers in Springfield and Washington D.C. introduce a many new legislative proposals. Over the next several weeks, IFI will be sending out email alerts asking for your responses to a variety of pro-family concerns. We not only ask for your patience but also for your perseverance and diligence in speaking out on these matters. Your voice in the public square and in the inboxes of your elected officials is absolutely vital.

Today, we have three items regrading the sanctity of life to bring to your attention:

Taxpayer Funding of Abortion

The most urgent matter: Click HERE to send a message to your state representative asking him/her to vote “no” to HB 40, the bill that would have our taxes pay for abortions under public aid and through state government insurance policies.

Passage of HB 40 would translate into tens of thousands of additional abortions in Illinois every year. More than 40,000 abortions are performed in Illinois annually.  HB 40 would push that number to well over 50,000 annual abortions.

This legislation may be voted on this week, so your state representative needs to hear from you right away.  Please let him/her know that you do not want your tax dollars funding abortion.  (Read more HERE.)

Defund Planned Parenthood

As you know, last year through the release of undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress, we learned of the likelihood that Planned Parenthood has been committing the horrific and illegal practice of mutilating babies “born alive” for the purpose of selling their body parts for profit. (Read more here, here and here.)

Despite these gruesome revelations, the U.S. Congress has yet to respond.

This year we have an enormous opportunity that we cannot waste. We have a strong pro-life majority in Washington D.C., and a new pro-life president in the White House! Now there is absolutely no excuse for the continued funding of this despicable organization.

In order to stop the flow of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into Planned Parenthood–the nation’s large abortion provider–we must make our voices heard and put immense pressure on our federal lawmakers to act.

Within the next few weeks, IFI will be delivering thousands of petitions to our United States Congress to demand an end to the use of our tax dollars to fund abortions.

Take ACTION: Click HERE to sign our petition to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, urging them to take whatever steps are necessary to defund this deceptive abortion-provider. Our tax dollars should not be used to subsidize any so-called “health” organization that  provides abortions, harvests organs, or traffics in human body parts.

Pro-Life Billboards

Illinois Family Institute is partnering with other pro-life advocates to reach and challenge millions of our neighbors about abortion. We are putting up pro-life billboards with the simple and bold statement “Abortion Takes Human Life,” but we need your financial partnership to make this a success.

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In 2016, pro-life advocates reached 8.8 million views in Cook and DuPage Counties with this message. These billboards circumvent the biased media, going straight to the people and receiving an overwhelmingly positive response from the public. We want to build on that success in 2017. This is an opportunity to lead our culture away from abortion and toward life. Changing our culture requires bold and clear communication that reaches a large audience. This is an opportunity to save mothers and babies from abortion. Many who see these billboards will someday play a role in deciding whether or not they will abort an innocent baby. We can reach them before they’re tempted by abortion.

Click HERE to make a donation to raise funds to place these billboards throughout the Chicagoland area and then throughout the state of Illinois. We need your help to reach our culture with this life-affirming message.



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